Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:08:22 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What I can't read
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Thank you.

At 10:49 PM 03/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>My original point exactly. It's interesting to see what other people--with
>whom you may agree on nearly everything--can't stand that you love, and vice
>versa.
>
>Erica
>who thought it a pretty fine book, too
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Barry Newton [mailto:bnewton at ashcomp.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:43 PM
>To: WSFA members
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: What I can't read
>
>I hope I'm not the only person here who reveres Mr. Bester and thinks that
>The Stars My Destination is one of the finest works of fiction ever
>produced...
>
>Barry
>
>At 06:27 PM 3/22/02, Candy said (remarkably!)
> >I found Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination to be pathetic.  So
> >pathetic that I had to memorize the author's name and the book's title in
> >order to keep from, once again, picking it up and starting to read it.  I'd
> >get about halfway into it and go, "Oh.  This is *that* book." and put it
> >down again.
>
>Barry L. Newton, Ashton Computing & Management Services
>bnewton at ashcomp.com